MLB ignoring danger of shattered bats

[TooDumbForBitcoin]

It's just a matter of when. 

MLB's failure to address this will be part of Bud Selig's "legacy".

[Dogtanian]

Lol. Has anyone been injured by them before?

[Dogtanian]

Lol. Has anyone been injured by them before?

I think a few pitchers have been hit.  Can't watch baseball way too boring and they take forever to swing at the damn ball. there should be a 10 second limit when a batter is up.

Hit with the actual bat or shards from it?

[Dogtanian]

Lol. Has anyone been injured by them before?

I think a few pitchers have been hit.  Can't watch baseball way too boring and they take forever to swing at the damn ball. there should be a 10 second limit when a batter is up.

Hit with the actual bat or shards from it?

shards of the bats have hit pitchers before...like the top half the fattest part. But no real injuries that would make it needed to be looked at. I think you have a greater chance at getting hit by a home run or foul ball than a bat piece.

Don't they use metal bats or just wooden?

[hilariousandco]

Lol. Has anyone been injured by them before?

I think a few pitchers have been hit.  Can't watch baseball way too boring and they take forever to swing at the damn ball. there should be a 10 second limit when a batter is up.

Hit with the actual bat or shards from it?

shards of the bats have hit pitchers before...like the top half the fattest part. But no real injuries that would make it needed to be looked at. I think you have a greater chance at getting hit by a home run or foul ball than a bat piece.

Don't they use metal bats or just wooden?

Metal bats are Not allowed in MLB only wooden.  they use aluminum bats for softball and little league though.

Why are they not allowed? They trying to keep it oldschool or something?

[TooDumbForBitcoin]

Aluminum bats are used in college and high school to avoid the expense of replacing broken wooden bats.

Aluminum bats are not allowed in professional baseball for two reasons:

1.  A major league hitter would knock a pitcher's head onto the moon if an aluminum bat were used.

2.  Minor leaguers don't use aluminum bats because they need to get used to wooden bats.

A few years ago maple bats were introduced into MLB.  They don't break into two pieces.  They break into 20 pieces.  Cliff Lee was "knicked" on the neck a couple years ago by the shard of a maple bat.  Once a week an infielder has to dodge the shard of a a maple bat while fielding a grounder.

It is only a matter of time before a serious injury occurs from a maple bat shard in professional baseball.  Bud Selig is the wrong man to be responsible for a solution to this problem.

[hilariousandco]

Aluminum bats are used in college and high school to avoid the expense of replacing broken wooden bats.

Aluminum bats are not allowed in professional baseball for two reasons:

1.  A major league hitter would knock a pitcher's head onto the moon if an aluminum bat were used.

I think they'd do the same amount of damage if you were clobbered around the head with one.

[d2dtk]

It's just a matter of when. 

MLB's failure to address this will be part of Bud Selig's "legacy".

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(a) The bat shall be a smooth, round stick not more than 23/4 inches in diameter at the thickest part and not more than 42 inches in length. The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.
NOTE: No laminated or experimental bats shall be used in a professional game (either championship season or exhibition games) until the manufacturer has secured approval from the Rules Committee of his design and methods of manufacture.
(b) Cupped Bats. An indentation in the end of the bat up to one inch in depth is permitted and may be no wider than two inches and no less than one inch in diameter. The indentation must be curved with no foreign substance added.
(c) The bat handle, for not more than 18 inches from its end, may be covered or treated with any material or substance to improve the grip. Any such material or substance, which extends past the 18 inch limitation, shall cause the bat to be removed from the game.
NOTE: If the umpire discovers that the bat does not conform to (c) above until a time during or after which the bat has been used in play, it shall not be grounds for declaring the batter out, or ejected from the game.
(d) No colored bat may be used in a professional game unless approved by the Rules Committee.